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Maren pulls in a shaky breath. “We have a room available for you because my brother, Brandon, died last summer. A firefighter—a hotshot.”
Betty O’Neil runs late every day. She’s thirty-seven, has five kids from four men, and has never been married.
works with the mentally ill to feel normal—at least, that’s my best assessment of her situation.
I’m your person, but you’re not mine.
You’re generous. Distractingly mesmerizing.
Quirky in a brilliant way. And ineffably beautiful.
“Anything for my person.”
“You kissed me, Fitz. Twice. Why
“Because not kissing you became too exhausting.”
I don’t want a girlfriend or a wife because I’m happily married to my job.
“He’s pretty smitten.” Evette leans into me
“Calvin, of course. Gary and I have never seen him like this.”
“He can’t take his eyes off you.
couldn’t the night of the party,
“We’ve never seen this side of Calvin. What have you done?”
“My friend Melissa will assume something is going on
between us if you go with me to Miami.”
How did I fall so fast and hard for Calvin Fitzgerald?
I’m not boyfriend material. I’m not marriage material.
won’t be anyone’s husband or father.” I take a sip of coffee.
It’s that I can never have anything or anyone.
Grief isn’t an anchor to the past; it’s a thief of the future.
Jaymes Andrews is the best mistake I’ve ever made.
She won’t understand my grief, my fears,
my need to control what’s left of my life.
With my lips at her ear, I whisper,
“I don’t pretend they’re dead. They are dead.
Today is the day we will get kicked out of the house.
have an overwhelming urge to dig and pry.
“But, Calvin Fitzgerald, you fell in love with Jamie.
she fell in love with you. And you . .
“You let her go. You f...
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“Do you love her?” “Yes.”
I made you my person, and you don’t fit in my life,
but my life no longer fits me without you.”
“When I purchased the plane ticket, I was coming here for you.”
“When you entered the restaurant, I knew I was here for me.”
That’s the thing with love; it’s untimely, unannounced, and underestimated.
“If you were normal and didn’t have an awful past,
do you think you could love me?”
“Jaymes, if I were normal, I’d love you enough.
The problem is, I’m not normal, so I’d love you too much.”
I’ve fallen in love with a man who can never be mine.”
“Because my boy’s in love.” She grins behind her mug.
“Calvin, so help me; if you lie,
because a crazy man started a fire to kill a fucking bear.”
Seventeen people died, including five firefighters.
My mom. My dad. My sister.”
Calvin Fitzgerald is a survivor of unspeakable life circumstances.
He can’t give me everything because he has nothing left to give.
